GAGLIARDI GALLERY
30 YEARS ON THE KINGS ROAD

Curriculum Vitae

Francesco
Ruspoli
Antonio
Sbrana
Paul
Jonkers
Jacques
Gregoire
Nicolai
Karadof
Tom
Nash
Bill
Bate
Paolo
Bigazzi
Dennis
Gilbert
Jincheng
Liu
Albert
Louden
Brad
Owen
Andy
Warhol
Stuart
Miller
Mario
Schifano
Eduardo 
Torassa 
Frances
Turner
David
Jones 
Antonio
Pacitti 
Pierluigi
Rolando
Vincent
Wilson
Madge
Gill
   

Jacques  Gregoire                                         Price range: £900 - £2500

Jacques graduated from the Royal
  Academy of Fine Art of the Hague in 1987.

Exhibitions include:

Lord Leighton House Museum, London
Centre de Rencontres Internationales, Principaute' de Monaco
Chelsea Town Hall,  London

Mario Schifano (1934-1938)          

considered to be one of most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism as well as the most important Italian pop artists. His works can be found in the most important Museums around the world.


Paul Jonkers                                                    Price range: £600 - £1800

Jonker's works reflects his preoccuations, his love of animals, mythology, the irrelevance of time and the re-interpretation of everyday objects. His style has been described as a "New Old Master".  He paints with a delicate touch and a faultless technique.

Exhibitions include:

Portal Gallery, London
Beaux Arts, Bath

Paul has painted numerous commissions over the last few years, the largest for Portmerion Hotel, Wales and the most recent for Wessex Cancer Trust.

Nikolai Karadof                                                   Price range: £600 - £800  

Born in 1950 in Malchika, Bulgaria

Graduated from Sofia Art Academy in 1975 and he is a member
of the National Art Association and of the  Bulgarian Art Abroad Association.

Lately he was invited to participate  as an "Artist of Honor" at the Bulgarian "Triennale" and commissioned 
to paint a state portrait of the late monsegnieur  E Bosilkov.
His works are to be found in the National Art Gallery, Sofia, in another 5 regional museums in Bulgaria, 
and in many private collections across Europe and the USA.   

Francesco Ruspoli                                                                                             Price range:  £400 - £1800

Born 1958 in Paris, graduated from St martins School of Art. (MA)
Knight of the Art and elected Member of the Greci-Marino Academy.  

"
From the Renaissance and the Art of War, Prince Francesco Ruspoli
takes his ancestors to a new dimension through his dynamic art."

   
                                                     Bill Hopkins  (International Association of Art Critics)

Public
  Collections:

Gauguin Museum, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Museo d'Arte Chianciano Terme, Italy    
Museum of Modern Art, New York, listing

Bill Bate                                                                                                            Price range: £400 - £1600

Born in  Liverpool 1962.  Graduated from St. Martins School of Art.

Exhibtions:
Miarte International Exhibtion of Art, Milan
Royal Society of Oil Painters
Centro Congressi, Aosta, Italy           
England Art Club, Mall Galleries, London

 Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Ottagono Arte, Venice
Galerie de l'Europe, Paris
Gagliardi  Gallery at Victoria  & Albert Museum, London
                                                                                                                                

Tom Nash                                                                                               Price range: £650 - £1800

Born in Ammanford in 1931.  Graduated from Swansea College of Art. Elected Associate of the Royal Cumbrian Academy in 1959. Elected member of Societe Artistes des Humanites de France

Public collections include:
National Museum of Wales
The University of Wales
The Calman Museum of Argentina
Brasenose and Wadham Colleges, Oxford
Pembroke and Churchill Colleges, Cambridge
The Welsh Art Council
BP Collection, London    
                                                                                                                            

Eduardo Torassa                                                                                   Price range   from £1500

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1955.  He has participated in numerous exhibitons all over the world and has won many awards and distinctions.


Public collections include:

Museum of Art,  Sao Paulo, Brazil

Museum of Art,  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Henry Ford Collection
Lloyd's Chambers, London
County of New York Collection
                                                                                                                                    


Frances Turner (1962-2002)

Graduated from Wimbledon School of Art,BA Honours, and did her MA at St. Martins School of Art.

Achievements:
1996     Won first prize at the Royal Society for   Portrait  Painter  and was awarded the Carroll 
              Foundation Award for  young painters 
1996     Selected for the BP Award Exhibiton at the National Portrait Gallery
1997     Selected for the BP Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
1998     Selected for the BP Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
1998     Winner of the Rootstein Hopkins travel award
1999     Selected for the BP Award Exhibiton at the National Portrait Gallery
2000     Selected for the BP Award Exhibiton at the National Portrait Gallery
2001     Selected for the BP Award Exhibiton at the National Portrait Gallery
2002    Retrospectve One man show at  Museo del Chopo, Mexico


David Jones                                                                            Price range:  £200 - £600

Holds a Diploma from the Liverpool College of Art.

Exhibitons include:

Walker Art  Gallery, Liverpool

MAFA, Manchester
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Royal Academy

Public collections include:
National Museum of Wales
National Union of Mine Workers
Liverpool City Council
                                                                                                                                


Albert Louden                                                                        Price range : from £500 - £5000

Born in 1945 in Blackpool.  Louden is Britain's best living "Art Brut" artist, drawing his inspiration from within, unaffected by outside influences or instruction. 


Public collections include:

The Outsider Archive, London

The Art Brut Collection, Lausanne
Musee d'Adzak, Paris
Museum of Outsider Art, Zwolle, Holland
Museum of Modern Art, Milwaukee
Museum of American Folk Art, New York
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Tate Britain
Museum of Dublin
Musee de Creation Franche Begle  Bordeaux


Jincheng Liu                                                                  Price range: from £1000 - £11000


Born in China and graduated from Beijing Art School. In 1982 he obtained a BA from the Department of Fine Art, Beijing College and in 1989 he Jingcheng carried out Post-graduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, London University

Exhibitons include
1983-1984      China National Art Gallery, Beijing
1994               Milan International Art Exhibition

1995               BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
1996               Shows and sales at both Sotheby's and Christie's in London, Hong Kong  and Paris.
1997               Gagliardi Gallery at Victoria  & Albert Museum, London
2000               Royal Academy Summer Show
2001               Royal Academy Summer Show
2001               The Royal  Society of Landscape Painters, Mall Galleries
2004               The Royal Academy Summer Show
2005               The Royal Academy Summer Show

Commissions
  include:

Canon K C Wilkinson of Canterbury Cathedral

Anna Paolozzi


Vincent Wilson                                                                                Price range: from £500 

Born in 1933 in Clwyd, Wales.  

Graduated from Liverpool College of Art.
Member of the Penwith Society of Art and the Newlyn Society of Artists


Exhibitions include:

The Royal West of England Academy

The Mall Galleries
The Royal Academy

Public collections include:
Devon County Council

Plymouth City Art Gallery
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 


Dennis Gilbert                                                                                Price range:  from £380  

Born in London in 1922.  Studied at St Martins School of Art.   Senior Lecturer at Chelsea School of Art.Elected member of the New English Art Club, The Society of Landscape Painters and the National Society of Painters.

Exhibitons include:

The Turin International Exhibtion of Drawings

The Paris Salon
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
The Royal Academy

Antonio Pacitti                                                                    Price range:   from £800

Born in Montecassino, Italy in 1924.  Studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1941-43, where he received a Gold Medal for Drawing.From 1949 to 1951, he studied at Sir John Cass College of Art; and from 1951-54, Pacitti studied at the Slade School of Art.Awards:
1940    Goldmedal for Drawing, Glasgow School of Art

1954    Slade Travel Scholarship
1999    Award for Watercolours and Graphics, Malta Biennale

Exhibitions:
Keely University Permament Exhibition
Royal Academy


Commissions
Sculpture and Processional Cross
Church of St Thomas Moore, Patcham

Public collections:

The British Museum

The Wallace Collection
Tempra Museum, Malta
Wignacourt Museum, Malta

Stuart McAlpine Miller                                                      from £900- £6000


Born Irvine, Scotland 1964, Graduated Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, 1990

Exhibitions
Bysantine Gallery, Edinburgh
Albion Gallery, Cannes, France
Polesci Gallery, Lucca, Italy
Connaught Brown, London
AwardsFinalist, Lord Provost Award, 1995

Public Collections:
Manchester Whitchurch Gallery

Paolo Bigazzi                                                                Price range:  £400  - £700

Born in Italy, 1945.  Graduated  from the Academy of Fine Art in Florence. He studied under Piero Annigoni.

Madge Gill  (1882 - 1961)                                             Price range: from £650

One of Britains's best "Art Brut" artists.She lost the sight of one eye at a young age.  Madge later began to draw, embroider and knit, often working at night by an oil lamp (possibly even in total darkness).  Being a spiritualist, she claimed to be guided in her work by a spirit called "Myrninerst" and did not want to part with her work as it belonged to her spirit-guide.
Her drawings can be found in Museums all over the world

Pierluigi Rolando                                                            Price range: from £1000

Born in 1935 and educated at the Jesuit College in Turin, he later graduated from Leeds University in the UK.Pierluigi was always very creative, and is today one of Italy's most renouned designers, he has designed for many famous fashion houses such as Chanel,Cardin and Zegna.      

In the  beginning of the 1970's Pierluigi was in great demand and he designed the Ferrari Overall and the Olympic uniform for the USA team among other commissions.
He has always dedicated his free time to painting and sculpting . He invents mysterious figures of heroes and mythical animals. He is now a full time artist  and  his work can be found in  private collections all over the world.  
 
Exhibitions include:

"La Stampa" Torino

Arte  Resistenza"  Biella,   Palazzo Lamarmora
Mostra Internazionale della Ceramica ,   Museum of  Caselllamonte
Pavia Casello Visconteo. " Scultura e Colore"
"Gagliardi Gallery" at Lord Leighton House Museum

Antonio Sbrana                                                                    Price range: from £600

Born in Italy, he is one of the last post-macchiaioli painters and belongs to the prestigious Labronic Group 

of which the internationally renowned painters Giovanni  Fattori, Amadeo Modigliani  and Pietro Annigoni were also members.
Sbrana  graduated  from the Academy of Fine Art, Florence 
and he is an elected member of  The Accademia Tiberina of Rome 
and of the Accademia del Fiorino of  Florence

He has won numerous awards and is mentioned in all of the most important art reference books in Italy


Andy Warhol (1928-1987)     
                              Price range: from £4000

Born in Pittsburgh, USA, and is regarded as the father of American Pop Art. His works can be found in the most important Museums in the world.

Richard Bradley Owen                                            Price Range: From £600


Born in Vancouver, Canada 1957. Studied philosophy at the Simon Fraser University and on graduating in 1987.

Exhibitions include:

Euro Art 2000 - Whiteley’s, London 2000
6th Annual Chelsea Art Fair, London 2001
Bel-Art Gallery, Vancouver 2001
Duo Exhibition - Konschthaus beim Engel, Luxembourg 2002
7th Annual Chelsea Art Fair, London 2002
Solo Exhibition - Gallerie Philippe Calon, Luxembourg 2004
Solo Exhibition - Victoria House, Harrowgate, UK 2006

Norman Adams R.A. 1927-2005

Studied at the Royal College of Art, public collection include:

Tate Gallery
Scottish National Gallery
Royal Academy